Even the Mother, 'the New Eve', as Paul himself calls her, in order to participate in her Son’s journey, learned, suffered and obeyed.
Any of you well catechized Catholics want to show us poor deluded Prots just WHERE Paul said this?
It’s an extrapolation from I Corinthians, wherein Paul describes Jesus Christ as the second or last Adam. I’ve always been puzzled by the awkwardness of this, as Eve was Adam’s mate, not his mother.
“Any of you well catechized Catholics want to show us poor deluded Prots just WHERE Paul said this?”
It has to do with what St. Paul said about the New Adam (Christ) in Romans 5:12-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:22-49. If Pope Francis made the comment at all, he made it much the same way Matthew cites the prophets in Matthew 2:23. They never actually said what Matthew says they said in so many words. It is an idea taken from something else they said that agrees with the text.
For your edification:
http://www.stpeterslist.com/682/6-biblical-reasons-mary-is-the-new-eve/
http://home.earthlink.net/~mysticalrose/marian1.html
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/most/getchap.cfm?WorkNum=213&ChapNum=3
http://www.saintcornelius.org/PDFs/Mary,theNewEve.pdf
“Any of you well catechized Catholics want to show us poor deluded Prots just WHERE Paul said this?”
It must be part of that “tradition” that is very important but Paul neglected to write down.